Whispers of the Dead

Recovering from a near-fatal attack, forensic anthropologist Dr David Hunter returns to the Body Farm in Tennessee, the research facility where he first trained, to find out whether he can still do the work. When a body is found in an isolated cabin, his old mentor Tom Lieberman asks him to join the investigation as a fresh pair of eyes.

A fingerprint at the scene leads to a man who died six months earlier, and his grave holds the remains of someone else. Hunter and the Tennessee investigators realise they are hunting a killer with forensic knowledge as detailed as their own. Third in the David Hunter series, after Written in Bone.